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404 Media is an independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.

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• Samantha Cole

Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'

Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'

An error message appears saying "The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists" when users try to add the phrase to their bios, but any number of other phrases about political and religious preferences are allowed.

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• Matthew Gault

Lawsuit Alleges Roblox Hosted Digital 'Diddy Freak-Off' Themed Games

Lawsuit Alleges Roblox Hosted Digital 'Diddy Freak-Off' Themed Games

The games were mentioned in a 2024 report and are now part of a new lawsuit in which a 11 year old girl was allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted after meeting a stranger on Roblox.

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• Jason Koebler

LeBron James' Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him

LeBron James' Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him

Viral Instagram accounts making LeBron 'brainrot' videos have also been banned.

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• Becky Ferreira

Humans Have Shifted Earth's Rotation, Scientists Discover. Here's How.

Humans Have Shifted Earth's Rotation, Scientists Discover. Here's How.

Over the past few centuries, dams have pulled the poles a few feet off of Earth’s rotational axis.

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• Emanuel Maiberg

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

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• Joseph Cox

Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent

Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent

The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, which Amazon then pushed out to users.

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• Matthew Gault

ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It

ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It

Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.

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• Joseph Cox

Podcast: Spotify Is Publishing AI Tracks of Dead Artists

Podcast: Spotify Is Publishing AI Tracks of Dead Artists

Spotify is publishing AI-generated tracks of dead artists; a company is selling hacked data to debt collectors; and the Astronomer CEO episode shows the surveillance dystopia we live in.

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• Rosie Thomas

'It's Not a Political Statement': Checking in With Tesla Superfans at Elon Musk's New Diner

'It's Not a Political Statement': Checking in With Tesla Superfans at Elon Musk's New Diner

The Tesla Diner has two gigantic screens, a robot that serves popcorn, and owners hope it will be free from people who don't like Tesla.

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• Jason Koebler

Pentagon Says It Will ‘Continuously’ Monitor Bathrooms to Comply With Anti-Trans Order

Pentagon Says It Will ‘Continuously’ Monitor Bathrooms to Comply With Anti-Trans Order

An internal memo obtained by 404 Media also shows the military ordered a review hold on "questionable content" at Stars and Stripes, the military's 'editorially independent' newspaper.

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• Joseph Cox

Los más de 200 sitios que monitorea un contratista de vigilancia de ICE

Los más de 200 sitios que monitorea un contratista de vigilancia de ICE

404 Media obtuvo la lista de páginas y servicios desde donde el contratista ShadowDragon extrae datos. Su herramienta permite a analistas del gobierno analizar la información para encontrar vínculos entre personas.

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• Jason Koebler

Un vistazo a la colosal base de datos que usa el ICE para identificar y deportar personas

Un vistazo a la colosal base de datos que usa el ICE para identificar y deportar personas

La base de datos permite crear filtros según cientos de categorías distintas, incluidos estatus migratorio, "características físicas específicas" (cicatrices, marcas, tatuajes), "afiliación criminal"; datos de lectores de patentes y más.

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• Joseph Cox

La herramienta de vigilancia con inteligencia artificial que usa el DHS para detectar “sentimientos y emociones”

La herramienta de vigilancia con inteligencia artificial que usa el DHS para detectar “sentimientos y emociones”

Documentos internos del DHS revelan su colaboración con Fivecast, una empresa que ofrece el servicio de “detección de términos y frases de riesgo encontrados en línea”.

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• Jason Koebler

Manifiestos de vuelo revelan que casi 40 personas no identificadas fueron enviadas en tres vuelos de deportación a El Salvador

Manifiestos de vuelo revelan que casi 40 personas no identificadas fueron enviadas en tres vuelos de deportación a El Salvador

Información filtrada mediante hackeos y obtenida por 404 Media revela que en los vuelos de deportación a El Salvador hubo decenas de personas adicionales no registradas oficialmente.

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• Joseph Cox

Un vistazo a la base de datos del ICE que busca comentarios “despectivos” en línea

Un vistazo a la base de datos del ICE que busca comentarios “despectivos” en línea

¿Positivo o negativo? Esas son las opciones que tienen los analistas cuando la herramienta Giant Oak Search Technology desentierra el contenido publicado en redes sociales y otras fuentes para que el ICE lo analice.

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• Jason Koebler

ICE accede a una red nacional de cámaras con inteligencia artificial, según datos

ICE accede a una red nacional de cámaras con inteligencia artificial, según datos

Las cámaras lectoras de patentes de Flock están instaladas en más de 5000 comunidades en EE.UU. y las policías locales usan el sistema nacional para realizar búsquedas el ICE.

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• Joseph Cox

Filtración revela el plan de Palantir para ayudar al ICE a deportar personas

Filtración revela el plan de Palantir para ayudar al ICE a deportar personas

Chats de Slack y foros de discusión internos de la empresa muestran que el gigante de la vigilancia está colaborando activamente con el ICE para ubicar a personas con órdenes de deportación.

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• Joseph Cox

El ICE ya usa una nueva app de reconocimiento facial para identificar personas, revelan correos filtrados

El ICE ya usa una nueva app de reconocimiento facial para identificar personas, revelan correos filtrados

Correos internos del ICE obtenidos por 404 Media indican que el sistema CBP, normalmente usado para tomar fotos de personas al ingresar o salir de EE.UU., está siendo usado ahora por la agencia mediante una herramienta llamada Mobile Fortify.

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• Joseph Cox

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish

From ICE's facial recognition app to its Palantir contract, we've translated a spread of our ICE articles into Spanish and made them freely available.

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• Emanuel Maiberg

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission

"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."

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• Samantha Cole

The NIH Is Capping Research Proposals Because It's Overwhelmed by AI Submissions

The NIH Is Capping Research Proposals Because It's Overwhelmed by AI Submissions

The NIH wrote that it has recently “observed instances of Principal Investigators submitting large numbers of applications, some of which may have been generated with AI tools."

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• Rosie Thomas

Gemini Is 'Strict and Punitive' While ChatGPT Is 'Catastrophically' Cooperative, Researchers Say

Gemini Is 'Strict and Punitive' While ChatGPT Is 'Catastrophically' Cooperative, Researchers Say

In tests involving the Prisoner's Dilemma, researchers found that Google’s Gemini is “strategically ruthless,” while OpenAI is collaborative to a “catastrophic” degree.

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• Joseph Cox

A Startup is Selling Data Hacked from Peoples’ Computers to Debt Collectors

A Startup is Selling Data Hacked from Peoples’ Computers to Debt Collectors

Infostealer data can include passwords, email and billing addresses, and the embarrassing websites you use. Farnsworth Intelligence is selling to to divorce lawyers and other industries.

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• Becky Ferreira

Scientists Discover New World In Our Solar System: ‘Ammonite’

Scientists Discover New World In Our Solar System: ‘Ammonite’

Meet Ammonite, a tiny weird iceball that casts doubt on the Planet Nine hypothesis.

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• Joseph Cox

Behind the Blog: High Stakes Data Dumps

Behind the Blog: High Stakes Data Dumps

This week, we discuss data dumps, high stakes, and lizard brain screen time.

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• Jason Koebler

Come Party With Us In Los Angeles July 30

404 Media is throwing a live podcast and party at RIP.SPACE in the Arts District.

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• Samantha Cole

White House Partners With PragerU to Make AI-Slopified Founding Fathers

White House Partners With PragerU to Make AI-Slopified Founding Fathers

John Adams says "facts do not care about our feelings" in one of the AI-generated videos in PragerU's series partnership with White House.

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• Jason Koebler

The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia

The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia

Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.

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• Joseph Cox

Inside ICE’s Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200 Million Images

Inside ICE’s Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200 Million Images

404 Media has seen user manuals for Mobile Fortify, ICE’s new facial recognition app which allows officers to instantly look up DHS, State Department, and state law enforcement databases by just pointing a phone at someone’s face.

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• Jason Koebler

Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador

Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador

Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know," one lawyer said.